LOW FLAT RATE AUST-WIDE $9.90 DELIVERY INFO
David F. Walker is an award-winning comic book writer, author, filmmaker, journalist, and educator. His work in comic books includes Shaft, winner of the Glyph Award for Story of the Year; Power Man and Iron Fist, Nighthawk, Fury, Secret Wars- Battleworld, Cyborg, The Army of Dr. Moreau, and Number 13. He is also the creator of the critically-acclaimed YA series The Adventures of Darius Logan and the author of the Eisner-winning The Black Panther Party and Bitter Root. Recognized as a leading scholar expert of African American cinema, Walker produced one of the definitive documentaries on the topic of Blaxploitation films, Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered, and Shafted. Marcus Kwame Anderson is an illustrator and fine artist. Much of his work explores the beauty and diversity of the African diaspora and often incorporates social commentary. He graduated from SUNY Fredonia with a degree in illustration. Anderson is the Eisner-winning co-creator of The Black Panther Party, the co-creator of the comic book series Snow Daze, and has illustrated stories in Action Lab's Cash and Carrie and F.O.R.C.E.
“One of the most profound, ambitious and emotionally hard-hitting graphic novels ever attempted.”—Forbes “Big Jim and the White Boy is a brilliant remix of history, politics, satire, and passion filtered through the comics medium by two masters of storytelling. David F. Walker and Marcus Kwame Anderson have done it again with this instant classic!”—John Jennings, Hugo Award–winning comics creator “Big Jim and the White Boy is a stunning inversion of any reader’s expectations: a breathtaking adventure that disassembles a literary classic, a well-researched reckoning with the legacies of enslavement and liberation, and a genuinely heart-swelling exploration of love, time, and memory. David F. Walker and Marcus Kwame Anderson playfully smash genre limitations to highlight both the closeness of history’s shadow and fiction’s role in illuminating it.”—Nate Powell, award-winning cartoonist of the March trilogy and Save It for Later “Big Jim and The White Boy is a riveting story that really turns the original Huck Finn story on its head. To see this tale through Jim’s eyes is thought-provoking and impactful. Definitely a must-read!”—Regine Sawyer, comic book writer and coordinator and founder of WinC International “What these brothers have created is fire! David F. Walker has given Jim a voice beyond the superstitious, passive slave and Marcus Kwame Anderson has made him real and not a cultural cliche. This book, beautifully illustrated and superbly written, expands an American classic by adding rich and important cultural nuances.”—Joel Christian Gill, author of Fights and chair of the MFA in Visual Narrative at Boston University “David F. Walker is one of the most imaginative and bold storytellers out there, and Marcus Kwame Anderson’s beautiful art is the perfect complement for the retelling of this most important American story.”—Erika Alexander, cocreator and writer of Concrete Park “Big Jim and the White Boy is simultaneously a page turner and a thoughtful exploration. Its twists and turns are worthy of a classic mystery novel, while its deep engagement with the role of storytelling in preserving and transmitting lost histories challenges readers’ assumptions about the nature of ancestry and memory. The beautifully drawn pages prompt us and give us the space to see enslaved Black people, their families, and their communities in all their humanity, complexity, and strength.”—Ajuan Mance, author of Gender Studies and Living While Black
